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In conversation with Helen and De Wet in Paris: cochlear implants in the year 2074

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants
The World Congress of Audiology (WCA), held in Paris, France, in September 2024, provided a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with colleagues from around the globe. I took the chance to sit outside in the sunshine with De Wet Swanepoel from...

An idiot’s guide to the Ministry of Health

1 January 2016 |
Neville Chamberlain on an ill-judged charm offensive. Now I like to consider myself a well brought up sort of chap, and was always taught never to bring up religion, politics or (heaven forfend!) a lady’s name at the dinner table....

Nature or nurture in surgical training

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
It’s Thursday in the UK, so that means time for another root and branch reform of medical training. If you’re not keen on the Greenaway Report (Shape of Training review) [1], don’t fret there’ll be another one along well before...

BACO 2015 – Liverpool

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
Team BACO 2015: Academic Secretary, Peter Andrews; Treasurer, Chris Potter; Master, Ian Mackay and Local Host and Programme Director, Andrew Swift. (Photo taken by Academic Chairman, Shakeel Saeed.) In the height of a glorious English summer, over 1200 of the...

“Oh Manchester is Wonderful”...And other chants you might hear from the football stands or at BACO

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Chris Potter is a lad of the North West, and we see him here letting his bleach blond hair grow out to show us his Northern roots. When I was a lad, Manchester was a troubled city in apparent terminal...

The curse of Sports Illustrated

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
“Not a supernatural curse, but a basic statistical concept of blinding simplicity.” What is ‘regression to the mean’? I am reliably informed that our former North American colonies publish a periodical known as Sports Illustrated (note, incidentally, the characteristically incorrect...

When dinosaurs ruled the earth

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - ENT
Optimism is abundant in medical research, but frequently ends up being tempered with reality. In his inimitable style, Chris Potter looks back over his career – starting with his medical school memories of Bentley-driving ENT consultants, and moving forward through...

Hotels.com

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...

Ear wax removal: should anyone and everyone perform it?

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Earwax removal is a controversial and much-debated issue in audiology. Risks and public safety call for reforms, sparking discussion on professional standards. Earwax is a natural secretion produced by the ear. It is an amalgamation of desquamous epithelial skin cells,...

Why one should not be seduced into organising a conference

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Having enjoyed yourself at so many meetings, it may strike you or be suggested to you by ‘friends’, that it would be a good idea to organise an international conference. Think of the kudos, the fame, the financial gain for...

Where ART meets Science: A unifying story in ENT & Audiology News

1 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
We are delighted to introduce a stunning new cover series by Dyon Scheijen, a Maastricht-based clinical physicist-audiologist and artist fascinated by the psychology of hearing. Dyon explores the connection between audiology, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and sound perception. He...

Young Phoniatrician Award

2 January 2025
The Young Phoniatrician Award is an annual award given by the Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP) to young medical doctors working on the field of Phoniatrics with promising potential for future academic and administrative leadership skills.